Computer programming was devalued as a women's job until it became lucrative, at which point women were sidelined.
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Sidelined
Synonyms for "sidelined" (32 found)
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Robert felt completely sidelined.
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In 2009, Spirit, one of NASA's two Mars rovers, got stuck in the sand. And more recently, the other rover — Curiosity — had to take a detour to avoid the shifting sands of the red planet. This got some scientists to thinking about ways to keep our very expensive robotic probes from getting sidelined by something as inconsequential as a sand trap.
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